I think you mean creator or inventor. It's not like the Lisp programming language was just sat out in the wilds of Chile under a rock waiting to be found by an archaeologist.
He was an old time computer scientist, publications with titles like "A basis for a mathematical theory of computation". Hard core math.
Philosophically, you don't "create" or "invent" math you discover it. Logical concepts exist independent of who wrote a paper about them first. Take two 256 bit random prime numbers, multiply them, and you have not "created" or "invented" the result but merely discovered it, or rephrased discovered its two factors.
4. Design flaw: no externally located terminals for "connect portable generators HERE"
Connector design at the multi megawatt level is not very well understood by the general public. You're not really saving any time by pre-running the last 50 feet of extension cord, so to speak.
Best you can hope for is pre-running some cables from the flooded and smashed switchboard in the basement to the... oops thats not gonna work because of the smashed and flooded switchgear. Well assuming the switchgear was intact, you could run a cable to some "portable gen" location. Unclear what that would be, since that gen would be the size and weight of a diesel locomotive.
Its far more likely that installing that cable will ruin the reactors safety rating from 99.99% to 99.9% when it inevitably has a rainwater leak, or gets shorted out, taking out the entire system, which even under normal non-tsunami conditions would be bad.
Also its just one more point where tsunami water can flood into the building. Install it in all plants and the next plant will have its switchgear flood thru the emergency gen conduit, murphys law permitting.
That goes precisely against the mentality and compensation plans of the entire industry.
A poorly run plant is defined as a plant that has a 4-gen availability uptime of 99%. (slightly made up number)
A well run plant is defined as a plant that has a 4-gen availability uptime of 99.99% (slightly made up number)
Management is paid for the goal of improving from 99% to 99.99% which is best done by putting all the gens in the same spot so the mechanics have easy access to all four, at the same height so they don't have to waste time climbing and setting up above and below grade "osha-like" safety systems, run from the same fuel depot so you can use your testing budget to test the fuel four times as often, Absolutely using the same exact model of gen for all four so you can afford four times the spare parts and massive interoperability. Say you have two gens down (under normal conditions, probably a career ending event for someone in management). If the gens are identical and in the same place its easy to move the radiator from the one with the broken fuel injector pump to the one with the working pump but broken radiator so now you only have a single gen down.
No one in management is incentiveized to prepare to handle the plant from 0% capability to 50% capability. Only 99% to 99.99%. In Japan maybe they'll fire some people, in the US we'd give them giant bonuses for being heroic leaders.
This is applicable thru all areas of technology. A cloud / webhost / outsourced service that brags how they have carefully managed their uptime to be 99.999% which is better than the industry average of merely 99.99% is obviously not focusing on recovery from a 0% situation, which will eventually happen. Pursuit of perfection always results in horrific disaster...
Or if they had hardened and filtered containment vents.
Hydrogen doesn't explode below about 1% concentration. Solution is obvious, once the H2 explosions start, smash a hole in the roof.
The legal system there and nuclear training is somewhat like a doctors "first do no harm" training here. Once H2 explosions started, I knew all the buildings were going to pop with H2 explosions, because "first do no harm" means they can't get themselves to do make a hole in the roof to let the H2 escape; it must explode inside the building.
If there's one thing I've learned about diesel generators in over a decade in the telecom business, its that a diesel that isn't run to full operating temp and full load power on a regular basis (like, weekly?) simply will not run ever again. You'll find it faster (although not cheaper) to install a new gen rather than diagnose and replace the damaged / rusted / failed parts.
Now installing extremely hardened facilities to drop a new gen in place might be a valid good idea... A solid reinforced concrete pier for a air cooled gen on a barge? (Can't use water cooling after a tsunami, water is all full of "stuff"). Solid steel and concrete railroad siding with some extreme gadgetry to hook up a diesel electric to the plant. Even just a bulldozer accessible road and platform with cabling pre-run to the platform?
See our periodic infestations of the black plague, influenza pandemics, etc.
Antibiotics are useless against virii, all they do is pacify frustrated mothers.
There is a "well known" racial difference of malaria susceptibility vs sickle cell anemia. Also some disease like HIV/AIDS seem to have nearly wiped out countries of certain races much worse than countries of other races, although its all very politically incorrect to even think about it, much less discuss it. Finally funny you should mention corn, as the more corn consumed, the more deaths due to obesity, once corrected for violence and economic effects. It would seem the most effective sort-voluntary depopulation mechanism might be to pepper the earth with 7-11s full of doritos.
I don't think we have to worry about that, a giant balloon is an easy target.
That's why you make a really freaking big balloon and hang an orphanage full of nuns underneath it, with numerous webcams. And kittens and ponies for the cute orphan kids to play with. Heck turn it into a telethon for those young victims of global warming and you can get angsty americans to pay for the whole thing one paypal / bitcoin donation at a time.
If even I can come up with that P.R. solution, I'm sure a real marketing guy could do much better.
What in the world are you talking about? The ecosystem is a lot bigger than one exchange. Multiple exchanges, and anyone can accept private transactions. I'm not entirely certain what Julian plans to do with 3.5 million but presumably at least some small amount can be directly paid for via BTC. Certainly webhosting, stuff like that.
Also most activity is quite psuedo-anonymous. Thought experiment: Julian decides to exchange 3.5 million per day, with a 5000 limit, thats a perl script running 700 times creating a new BTC address, sending $5000 to each new address from the main addrs, and then each of the 700 new addrs sending $5000 to separate new exchange accounts to cash them in or exchange or whatever. We're talking about something a small desktop and an IT tech school kid can handle, we don't need a computing cluster or PHD for this.
If Assange were to try to use it, he would end up losing a fairly hefty percentage of every dollar/euro/pound he put in it
Its a bitCOIN not a bitBANK. I can turn $ into BTC practically instantly. I can send his address the BTC, and he can turn "his" BTC into someone elses BTC in exchange for "whatever". It takes maybe about an hour of work from I say go to he has "something". I have never sent Julian money but I have given friends gifts and its pretty straightforward.
People who are used to paypal via checking account payment going to ibanpal.eu or whatever are always horrifically confused with how fast BTC works. It doesn't take three weeks to clear and have three 5% commissions along the way. It takes about, eh, an hour, and the exchange rate simply doesn't change that fast. Frankly Julian can sleep all night (or whatever it is he does all night) and he will still lose far less on average than the current crop of international money changers charge...
Not only are we in a post-PC world, we're in a post-game-console world as well.
And a post $75 game world. Like it or not, your next hundred game purchases are probably going to be much cheaper than your previous hundred game purchases...
One big cultural issue is that "REAL gamers exclusively play remakes of sequels of FPS that cost $60 each" but I don't think that's gonna fly on the iOS / Android world, or at least it hasn't started to fly. A touch interface is nice for scrolling and scroll-like game interfaces. Not so good for FPS triggers.
The question is, what sort of game are people going to want to play that will require new hardware?
a good example of new possibilities would be forza motorsport. Fm4 has no open wheeled cars, partly because there is no animation/simulation code for open wheel suspension. This could be down to the fact that they simply didnt have the code for it, it could also been just beyond the capacity of the 360 to properly simulate/render the suspension components. Newer hardware would solve that.
Yes, interesting, but looking at pretty pictures is not "playing". Much like watching TV pro sports is not "exercising".
I'm thinking the main achievement of the next game gen is an explosion of standard hardware... 100% of controllers will have a really nice microphone and/or bluetooth mic so game designers can count on it for ALL users. 100% of next gen systems will have something like the kinect so game designers can count on it.
Bracelet accelerometer controller interface? Headband unit with accelerometer / cam / HUD?
In a nod to the popularity of smartphones and tablets, an iOS and Android app to make a second screen or controller or something?
Much like an amazon kindle, could future gen consoles have lifetime internet access for software updates / downloads / patches / social networking automation?
Also the death of hardware can be important... bye bye NTSC, probably HDMI only, that means game designers can assume text can be read on screen and fine details can be seen. Also the death of NTSC means color fidelity should be improved, hopefully the game designers have good taste. The death of "L R RCA audio" jacks in favor of fiber digital audio and/or HDMI audio means 5.1 surround can be assumed for 100% of users. bye bye rotating optical media and infrared controls and wired controls in favor of bluetooth means the "box" doesn't actually need human access or stylish appearance, it can look like shelf component or a featureless black box for all that matters. Back panel has AC and HDMI out and... maybe thats it.
That and extremely heavy product tying. Whatever ships, it'll ship with streaming netflix. And probably a facebook app.
Anyone knowledgeable about the conflict is 2.5GHZ that led the US FCC to limit wifi from using channel 14 (2.484 GHz)?
According to the FCC spectrum chart the top of the 2.4 wifi band abuts the "Standard Frequency and Time Signal" Band at 2.5 GHz. What is that used for?
You're a factor of 1000 too high for WWV.
The problem with channel 14 is if it were used it would pretty much wipe out the BRS/MMDS service right above the wifi band.
MMDS never really went anywhere, which is a shame. For at least 30 years some areas have had some MMDS gear; my local school district linked the schools together in the 80s. Back when a decent pro-grade VCR cost $2500 a $1000 MMDS link between schools to share the VCR sounds like a good idea.
You'd be crazy to set up a MMDS system now, with the wifi wanna be hackers trying to use channel 14 to get away from the noise and some microwave oven interference. So that chunk of bandwidth is kind of a wasteland that no one can use, more or less.
Advanced AV stuff like that was kind of the "ipad of the 80s" where merely spending dough on silicon would magically make the kids smarter, or something.
Next June, I plan to travel from Boston to Hawaii (probably Kauai) to view the transit of Venus. I can take a small (90mm mak cas) telescope and a solar filter, but trying to cope with airline carry-on luggage restrictions and get a 4" diameter, 10" long aluminum cylinder through airport security is going to be a pain. Can viewing the transit be done using a camera obscura technique like one might use for viewing a partial solar eclipse?
Can you ship it via registered insured mail to the prez of the local telescope club about a month in advance? That way if they lose or destroy it you might have enough time to collect insurance, and buy another... Someone may already be making arrangements for this. Also the locals always know the best places to observe, so you may as well contact them anyway.
Single star long period semi-random "chaotic" variable? Perfectly gravitationally stable.
Check out my pals at the AAVSO American association of variable star observers (not a rickroll, I promise) http://www.aavso.org/
It would be hilarious if your author used a real light curve for his books and it was all an inside joke (perhaps the stars name is somehow related to a characters name, or the authors name, or the authors mom's name, etc)
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1. Astronomers view light that was created in the past. Is the past is viewable in all directions or just one?
I'm predicting you're about to get hit with the classic "inflating balloon" analogy. That is boring, because its the only analogy I've heard for the past 30 years. Does anyone have an analogy other than ye olde inflating balloon? I'm not interested in extremely close analogies (like the effect on tattoos of silicone enlargement of sorta spherical parts, or how the stamped manufacturers info changes when inflating a kickball).
Make us some predictions about bad astronomy in the future.
I'm guessing the 2012 crowd will be pretty disappointed in 2013 and looking for something new. What do you think will be the new hotness in flakiness? Do you think its even possible to predict?
My theory is flakiness reflects societal concerns. So the rednecks were "worried" about gay people getting civil rights, next thing you know we're deluged with UFO's doing probing of bubbas rearward areas. Following that line of thinking, now that the UK is spy camera crazy, and the sickness is spreading to the US and elsewhere, I'm predicting, some bad science will be orbiting alien space telescopes spying on us in 2013. You heard it first here on/....
I've lived in both urban and rural, and light pollution is nasty, but a bigger problem I have had is its either above 80 or below 50 or raining or snowing or ten thirsty mosquitos per cubic inch or foggy... But for about two weeks in spring and fall I have a blast stargazing.
Standard/. car analogy #1 : I reject the concept of fuel injectors on religious grounds, therefore my roadster has an ancient 70s era carburetor, and I lose all the races because I'm slow, but I know god loves me.
Standard/. car analogy #2 : I R an expurt car mekanic and I will now tune up yer (fuel injected) car using dis hear can o carb cleaner spray. Umm wheres da choke linkage? Well anyway, tune in next time when I install philips head screws using my hammer, and diagnose my cd player skipping problem by sniffing the muffler exhaust.
So everyone knows how post WWII era fictional spaceships sound like P-51 engines, 80s era fictional spaceships all sound like F-16s, and I was curious if there are any recent trends in "fictional spacecraft sounds" that I'm missing that you know about. Do you think that Star Trek 15 or whatever will have the Enterprise sound like the iphone unlock sound? I was thinking with the popularity of military UAVs we might be in for an era of model airplane sounds and flexing radio control servos. Donno. What do you think?
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a geomagnetic storm is underway
"was" not "is"
I was hoping to do some ham radio work on the 6 meter band using that, but I'm way too late, or so I'm told.
I think you mean creator or inventor. It's not like the Lisp programming language was just sat out in the wilds of Chile under a rock waiting to be found by an archaeologist.
He was an old time computer scientist, publications with titles like "A basis for a mathematical theory of computation". Hard core math.
Philosophically, you don't "create" or "invent" math you discover it. Logical concepts exist independent of who wrote a paper about them first. Take two 256 bit random prime numbers, multiply them, and you have not "created" or "invented" the result but merely discovered it, or rephrased discovered its two factors.
4. Design flaw: no externally located terminals for "connect portable generators HERE"
Connector design at the multi megawatt level is not very well understood by the general public. You're not really saving any time by pre-running the last 50 feet of extension cord, so to speak.
Best you can hope for is pre-running some cables from the flooded and smashed switchboard in the basement to the ... oops thats not gonna work because of the smashed and flooded switchgear. Well assuming the switchgear was intact, you could run a cable to some "portable gen" location. Unclear what that would be, since that gen would be the size and weight of a diesel locomotive.
Its far more likely that installing that cable will ruin the reactors safety rating from 99.99% to 99.9% when it inevitably has a rainwater leak, or gets shorted out, taking out the entire system, which even under normal non-tsunami conditions would be bad.
Also its just one more point where tsunami water can flood into the building. Install it in all plants and the next plant will have its switchgear flood thru the emergency gen conduit, murphys law permitting.
That goes precisely against the mentality and compensation plans of the entire industry.
A poorly run plant is defined as a plant that has a 4-gen availability uptime of 99%. (slightly made up number)
A well run plant is defined as a plant that has a 4-gen availability uptime of 99.99% (slightly made up number)
Management is paid for the goal of improving from 99% to 99.99% which is best done by putting all the gens in the same spot so the mechanics have easy access to all four, at the same height so they don't have to waste time climbing and setting up above and below grade "osha-like" safety systems, run from the same fuel depot so you can use your testing budget to test the fuel four times as often, Absolutely using the same exact model of gen for all four so you can afford four times the spare parts and massive interoperability. Say you have two gens down (under normal conditions, probably a career ending event for someone in management). If the gens are identical and in the same place its easy to move the radiator from the one with the broken fuel injector pump to the one with the working pump but broken radiator so now you only have a single gen down.
No one in management is incentiveized to prepare to handle the plant from 0% capability to 50% capability. Only 99% to 99.99%. In Japan maybe they'll fire some people, in the US we'd give them giant bonuses for being heroic leaders.
This is applicable thru all areas of technology. A cloud / webhost / outsourced service that brags how they have carefully managed their uptime to be 99.999% which is better than the industry average of merely 99.99% is obviously not focusing on recovery from a 0% situation, which will eventually happen. Pursuit of perfection always results in horrific disaster...
Or if they had hardened and filtered containment vents.
Hydrogen doesn't explode below about 1% concentration. Solution is obvious, once the H2 explosions start, smash a hole in the roof.
The legal system there and nuclear training is somewhat like a doctors "first do no harm" training here. Once H2 explosions started, I knew all the buildings were going to pop with H2 explosions, because "first do no harm" means they can't get themselves to do make a hole in the roof to let the H2 escape; it must explode inside the building.
If there's one thing I've learned about diesel generators in over a decade in the telecom business, its that a diesel that isn't run to full operating temp and full load power on a regular basis (like, weekly?) simply will not run ever again. You'll find it faster (although not cheaper) to install a new gen rather than diagnose and replace the damaged / rusted / failed parts.
Now installing extremely hardened facilities to drop a new gen in place might be a valid good idea... A solid reinforced concrete pier for a air cooled gen on a barge? (Can't use water cooling after a tsunami, water is all full of "stuff"). Solid steel and concrete railroad siding with some extreme gadgetry to hook up a diesel electric to the plant. Even just a bulldozer accessible road and platform with cabling pre-run to the platform?
Doesn't help at all with residual heat. That is the solution if you have no working control rods, which was not the problem.
It would seem a heck of a lot simpler to require building the thing below sea level and having the piping for thermosiphon operation.
I'm astounded at how little relationship this has to reality, other than what happened was bad, and what you list sounds also sounds bad.
See our periodic infestations of the black plague, influenza pandemics, etc.
Antibiotics are useless against virii, all they do is pacify frustrated mothers.
There is a "well known" racial difference of malaria susceptibility vs sickle cell anemia. Also some disease like HIV/AIDS seem to have nearly wiped out countries of certain races much worse than countries of other races, although its all very politically incorrect to even think about it, much less discuss it. Finally funny you should mention corn, as the more corn consumed, the more deaths due to obesity, once corrected for violence and economic effects. It would seem the most effective sort-voluntary depopulation mechanism might be to pepper the earth with 7-11s full of doritos.
With the help of people like Norman Borlaug.
Bad news for you is he died approx 25 months ago. Probably the most important person no one has ever heard of.
We will keep burning fossil fuels until the extraction costs become too great.
Which is extremely rapidly approaching... Not just costs, but you also need an economy stable enough to support long term energy harvesting schemes...
I don't think we have to worry about that, a giant balloon is an easy target.
That's why you make a really freaking big balloon and hang an orphanage full of nuns underneath it, with numerous webcams. And kittens and ponies for the cute orphan kids to play with. Heck turn it into a telethon for those young victims of global warming and you can get angsty americans to pay for the whole thing one paypal / bitcoin donation at a time.
If even I can come up with that P.R. solution, I'm sure a real marketing guy could do much better.
the Bitcoin exchange
What in the world are you talking about? The ecosystem is a lot bigger than one exchange. Multiple exchanges, and anyone can accept private transactions. I'm not entirely certain what Julian plans to do with 3.5 million but presumably at least some small amount can be directly paid for via BTC. Certainly webhosting, stuff like that.
Also most activity is quite psuedo-anonymous. Thought experiment: Julian decides to exchange 3.5 million per day, with a 5000 limit, thats a perl script running 700 times creating a new BTC address, sending $5000 to each new address from the main addrs, and then each of the 700 new addrs sending $5000 to separate new exchange accounts to cash them in or exchange or whatever. We're talking about something a small desktop and an IT tech school kid can handle, we don't need a computing cluster or PHD for this.
If Assange were to try to use it, he would end up losing a fairly hefty percentage of every dollar/euro/pound he put in it
Its a bitCOIN not a bitBANK. I can turn $ into BTC practically instantly. I can send his address the BTC, and he can turn "his" BTC into someone elses BTC in exchange for "whatever". It takes maybe about an hour of work from I say go to he has "something". I have never sent Julian money but I have given friends gifts and its pretty straightforward.
People who are used to paypal via checking account payment going to ibanpal.eu or whatever are always horrifically confused with how fast BTC works. It doesn't take three weeks to clear and have three 5% commissions along the way. It takes about, eh, an hour, and the exchange rate simply doesn't change that fast. Frankly Julian can sleep all night (or whatever it is he does all night) and he will still lose far less on average than the current crop of international money changers charge...
Not only are we in a post-PC world, we're in a post-game-console world as well.
And a post $75 game world. Like it or not, your next hundred game purchases are probably going to be much cheaper than your previous hundred game purchases...
One big cultural issue is that "REAL gamers exclusively play remakes of sequels of FPS that cost $60 each" but I don't think that's gonna fly on the iOS / Android world, or at least it hasn't started to fly. A touch interface is nice for scrolling and scroll-like game interfaces. Not so good for FPS triggers.
The question is, what sort of game are people going to want to play that will require new hardware?
a good example of new possibilities would be forza motorsport. Fm4 has no open wheeled cars, partly because there is no animation/simulation code for open wheel suspension. This could be down to the fact that they simply didnt have the code for it, it could also been just beyond the capacity of the 360 to properly simulate/render the suspension components. Newer hardware would solve that.
Yes, interesting, but looking at pretty pictures is not "playing". Much like watching TV pro sports is not "exercising".
I'm thinking the main achievement of the next game gen is an explosion of standard hardware... 100% of controllers will have a really nice microphone and/or bluetooth mic so game designers can count on it for ALL users. 100% of next gen systems will have something like the kinect so game designers can count on it.
Bracelet accelerometer controller interface? Headband unit with accelerometer / cam / HUD?
In a nod to the popularity of smartphones and tablets, an iOS and Android app to make a second screen or controller or something?
Much like an amazon kindle, could future gen consoles have lifetime internet access for software updates / downloads / patches / social networking automation?
Also the death of hardware can be important... bye bye NTSC, probably HDMI only, that means game designers can assume text can be read on screen and fine details can be seen. Also the death of NTSC means color fidelity should be improved, hopefully the game designers have good taste. The death of "L R RCA audio" jacks in favor of fiber digital audio and/or HDMI audio means 5.1 surround can be assumed for 100% of users. bye bye rotating optical media and infrared controls and wired controls in favor of bluetooth means the "box" doesn't actually need human access or stylish appearance, it can look like shelf component or a featureless black box for all that matters. Back panel has AC and HDMI out and ... maybe thats it.
That and extremely heavy product tying. Whatever ships, it'll ship with streaming netflix. And probably a facebook app.
When that happens, we believe that districts will be on the cusp of
finding a way to fire all the older more expensive teachers and replace them with fresh college grads at the bottom of the salary scale.
Any number can be gamed, and this once certainly will.
Anyone knowledgeable about the conflict is 2.5GHZ that led the US FCC to limit wifi from using channel 14 (2.484 GHz)?
According to the FCC spectrum chart the top of the 2.4 wifi band abuts the "Standard Frequency and Time Signal" Band at 2.5 GHz. What is that used for?
You're a factor of 1000 too high for WWV.
The problem with channel 14 is if it were used it would pretty much wipe out the BRS/MMDS service right above the wifi band.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multichannel_Multipoint_Distribution_Service
MMDS never really went anywhere, which is a shame. For at least 30 years some areas have had some MMDS gear; my local school district linked the schools together in the 80s. Back when a decent pro-grade VCR cost $2500 a $1000 MMDS link between schools to share the VCR sounds like a good idea.
You'd be crazy to set up a MMDS system now, with the wifi wanna be hackers trying to use channel 14 to get away from the noise and some microwave oven interference. So that chunk of bandwidth is kind of a wasteland that no one can use, more or less.
Advanced AV stuff like that was kind of the "ipad of the 80s" where merely spending dough on silicon would magically make the kids smarter, or something.
Next June, I plan to travel from Boston to Hawaii (probably Kauai) to view the transit of Venus. I can take a small (90mm mak cas) telescope and a solar filter, but trying to cope with airline carry-on luggage restrictions and get a 4" diameter, 10" long aluminum cylinder through airport security is going to be a pain. Can viewing the transit be done using a camera obscura technique like one might use for viewing a partial solar eclipse?
Can you ship it via registered insured mail to the prez of the local telescope club about a month in advance? That way if they lose or destroy it you might have enough time to collect insurance, and buy another... Someone may already be making arrangements for this. Also the locals always know the best places to observe, so you may as well contact them anyway.
Single star long period semi-random "chaotic" variable? Perfectly gravitationally stable.
Check out my pals at the AAVSO American association of variable star observers (not a rickroll, I promise)
http://www.aavso.org/
It would be hilarious if your author used a real light curve for his books and it was all an inside joke (perhaps the stars name is somehow related to a characters name, or the authors name, or the authors mom's name, etc)
OK whats the xkcd link..
1. Astronomers view light that was created in the past. Is the past is viewable in all directions or just one?
I'm predicting you're about to get hit with the classic "inflating balloon" analogy. That is boring, because its the only analogy I've heard for the past 30 years. Does anyone have an analogy other than ye olde inflating balloon? I'm not interested in extremely close analogies (like the effect on tattoos of silicone enlargement of sorta spherical parts, or how the stamped manufacturers info changes when inflating a kickball).
Here's a good one:
Make us some predictions about bad astronomy in the future.
I'm guessing the 2012 crowd will be pretty disappointed in 2013 and looking for something new. What do you think will be the new hotness in flakiness? Do you think its even possible to predict?
My theory is flakiness reflects societal concerns. So the rednecks were "worried" about gay people getting civil rights, next thing you know we're deluged with UFO's doing probing of bubbas rearward areas. Following that line of thinking, now that the UK is spy camera crazy, and the sickness is spreading to the US and elsewhere, I'm predicting, some bad science will be orbiting alien space telescopes spying on us in 2013. You heard it first here on /. ...
I've lived in both urban and rural, and light pollution is nasty, but a bigger problem I have had is its either above 80 or below 50 or raining or snowing or ten thirsty mosquitos per cubic inch or foggy ... But for about two weeks in spring and fall I have a blast stargazing.
What makes you think the two are unrelated?
Different mindset. eccentric vs incompetent.
Standard /. car analogy #1 : I reject the concept of fuel injectors on religious grounds, therefore my roadster has an ancient 70s era carburetor, and I lose all the races because I'm slow, but I know god loves me.
Standard /. car analogy #2 : I R an expurt car mekanic and I will now tune up yer (fuel injected) car using dis hear can o carb cleaner spray. Umm wheres da choke linkage? Well anyway, tune in next time when I install philips head screws using my hammer, and diagnose my cd player skipping problem by sniffing the muffler exhaust.
So everyone knows how post WWII era fictional spaceships sound like P-51 engines, 80s era fictional spaceships all sound like F-16s, and I was curious if there are any recent trends in "fictional spacecraft sounds" that I'm missing that you know about. Do you think that Star Trek 15 or whatever will have the Enterprise sound like the iphone unlock sound? I was thinking with the popularity of military UAVs we might be in for an era of model airplane sounds and flexing radio control servos. Donno. What do you think?